Surely the most astonishing New Year's Eve in Austin history arrived on Dec. 31, 1999.

Y2K specifically referred to the use of a two-digit number in tracking the current year in computer programming, which could ...

My wife recalls the night of Dec. 31, 1999 as a time of anxiety and trepidation. (Of course she views every night as a time ...

From Massena, where a duo began a millennium disaster food drive, to Glens Falls, where a company that supplied portable toilets saw a run on rentals, there were some serious preparations 25 years ago ...

NPR's Andrew Limbong speaks with writer Colette Shade about her book "Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never Was)." ...

NPR's Andrew Limbong speaks with writer Colette Shade about her book "Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never Was)." ...

Growing up in South Philadelphia obsessed with movies, dressing up, and writing stories, it seemed inevitable Jaeden Martell would pursue a career as an actor. These creative passions were birthed in ...

People feared the computer glitch would mean "the end of the world as we know it." Thankfully, Y2K didn't live up to the hype ...

You may not have to prepare for the Y2K crisis this New Year's, but you should still read this week's edition of Clint Walker ...

The Chathams are 45 minutes ahead of mainland New Zealand, which was considered the first industrialised nation to enter 2000 and face the "computer bug" Y2K. We were a test case of what the rest of ...

For all of us a certain age – you know who you are – it has been 25 years ago since a world meltdown was predicted because of changing of computer clocks from 1999 to 2000. Y2K, geek shorthand for ...

Zachary Loeb, Purdue University assistant professor, tells NPR's Juana Summers that the real story of Y2k wasn't about computers run amok. It was about experts sounding an alarm, and fixing problems.